Posted by admin
Headlines, Ondo, State News
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Commercial banks in Ondo State yesterday embarked on ‘seat at work strike’ in some parts of the state following the incessant robbery attacks on some banks. Some of the banks in Akure had last Friday started the strike as they tactically turned back customers under the pretence of having privileged information that armed robbers were […]
Posted by admin
Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Monday, December 12th, 2011
JOHANNESBURG -(AFP) China executed a South African woman by lethal injection Monday for drug smuggling after rejecting last-minute pleas for clemency from her government, the foreign ministry in Pretoria said. Janice Linden, 35, was convicted of trying to sneak three kilograms (6.6 pounds) of methamphetamine into the country in her luggage through the southern city […]
Posted by admin
Arts/Culture & Entertainment, Headlines, Nollywood (Film Industry)
Monday, December 12th, 2011

Business mogul, and CEO,Adiku Global International, Chief Mike Audu, CEO, may have commenced plans towards actualising his dream of giving Nollywood stars a home befitting to their status. At a dinner held last Wednesday at Protea Hotel, Ikoyi, Lagos, with selected stakeholders of the industry, the youthful entrepreneur said any moment from now, construction will […]
Posted by admin
Adebayo Adejare, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Sunday, December 11th, 2011

By Adebayo Adejare, NNP, Dec. 12, 2011 – “A man is worthy of praise and insult only with respect to those things that are in his power to do or not to do” – Aristotle: Third Book of Ethics Preface: Like him or hate him, Dim Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu would forever remain an enigma in […]
Posted by admin
Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists, Presidency
Sunday, December 11th, 2011

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – Dec. 12, 2011 – Something is happening imperceptibly to our President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ). Shortly after he assembled a new cabinet following the April 2011 general elections, it seems there has been a gradual but deliberate abandonment of the public persona which GEJ used to good effect […]
Posted by admin
Articles, Columnists, Emmanuel Ajibulu, NNP Columnists, Soccer, Sports, Track & Field
Sunday, December 11th, 2011

By Emmanuel Ajibulu, Osun, Nigeria – Dec. 12, 2011 – It is most disturbing to note that Super Falcons of Nigeria that have won every edition but one of the African women Championship (AWC) titles, still has not been given a matching reward for performance. It was heart warming when the Super Eagles won the […]
Posted by admin
Latest Politics
Sunday, December 11th, 2011
The younger sibling of the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua at the weekend resigned from the Army in a grand ceremony, which also saw the disengagement of three Major-Generals. Identified as Lieutenant Colonel Abdulazeez Yar’Adua, the officer who was attached to the Signals Corps told Daily Sun that he was leaving the force voluntarily after […]
Posted by admin
Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Presidency
Sunday, December 11th, 2011
Vice-President Mohammed Namadi Sambo yesterday paid a visit to former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, at his Uphill mansion in Minna, Niger State. The number two citizen who arrived IBB’s place at exactly 12:30pm was received by his host after which the duo and a few other confidants entered into a closed-door discussion. Sources […]
Posted by admin
Headlines
Sunday, December 11th, 2011
About 54, 000 Nigerians have died as a result of bombing, arson and mass-murder associated with Boko Haram terror, as well as ethno-religious or sectarian violence. Delivering a keynote address titled, “Nigeria in a state of war: How over 54,000 Nigerians died outside the Law Since 1999,” at the 63rd anniversary of the World Human […]
Posted by admin
Headlines
Sunday, December 11th, 2011
Dr Moses Amako, the immediate past Chief Medical Director of Owerri Specialist Hospital, Umuguma in Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State who was kidnapped on December 1, but later released one week after, has reportedly died. Dr Amako died last Saturday at about 7 pm following bullet injuries he sustained in one of […]